Enough from us. Let’s get to the goods. Don’t forget to check out our results page to see who scored our coveted close-but-no-cigar shout-outs. And keep your eyes peeled for info about both our upcoming poetry contest and our next quarterly contest, Flash Felon, with its crime-oriented theme.

by Seth Augenstein

by James R. Gapinski

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“Yesterday, upon the stair,I met a man who wasn’t there.

He wasn’t there again today.Oh, how I wish he’d go away.”

Fresh off the heels of our first sequel (Flash Monster II), we’re back in business with another original contest. With the first four contests now attractively bound together in our Prize Winners Anthology, we’re moving on to our second contest of the new batch, the Top 10 of which will be included in next year’s anthology. This time around, it’s all about strange phenomena.

The Flash Phenom contest focuses on the strange and surreal, on the otherworldly and unsettling, on the things that just don’t have any rational explanation. Let your minds wander to the darkest corners of your imagination, where the fluidity of dreams pours over concrete realities.

The parameters for this contest are as boundless as the cosmos. The strange phenomena can be based in science or out on the farthest fringes of sci-fi. All we request is that you include some strange phenomena in your entry. We’re fans of “The Twilight Zone,” “Twin Peaks,” and some of “The X-Files,” so those types of stories are a good place to get some inspiration.